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intopaulmanafort. thisis from the journal tonight. the subpoena is from the district attorney's office in manhattan, directed at a small bank in chicago run by a member of president trump's economic advisory panel. the subpoena is reportedly seeking information on some gigantic multimillion dollar loans that the tiny bank gave to paul manafort in november, the month of the election and in january, the month of the inauguration. and i say these loans are gigantic. in one specific sense they're gigantic loans when you look at the size of the entity that gave these loans. apparently what looked nutty to investigators about the loan is the $16 million that the bank gave to paul manafort, that $16 million was almost one quarter of the bank's equity capital. i don't speak banker either. but what i think that means is that the bank had "x" amount of money it could loan out in total in the world and these loans that they gave to paul manafort, that was them loaning him one occupant of every four dollars it could loan to anyone in the world. this one bank bent over so far to give him mon

into paul manafort. this is from the journal tonight. the subpoena is from the district attorney's office in manhattan, directed at a small bank in chicago run by a member of president trump's economic advisory panel. the subpoena is reportedly seeking information on some gigantic multimillion dollar loans that the tiny bank gave to paul manafort in november, the month of the election and in january, the month of the inauguration. and i say these loans are gigantic. in one specific sense...

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over the weekend about donald trump for president campaignchairpaulmanafortandhim finally retroactively registering as a foreign agent this year for the work he did years ago for pro-putin political parties and politicians in ukraine. when he finally retroactively registered as a foreign agent he reported over two years, 2012, 2013, the pro putin political party that he worked for paid him nearly $17 million. the reason that's weird is because over that same two-year period that party reported they didn't spend $17 million on anything. they didn't spend $17 million on everything combined. they say their budget didn't total up for everything to what manafort said they paid him. but there is that rico lawsuit from back in the day that alleged the pro putin political parties, they actually had tons of money because they were secretly funded by money from putin, and partially laundered through new york real estate deals that were re arranged between the oligarch and his american partner before his american partner started running the trump campaign. we don't know exactly why p

over the weekend about donald trump for president campaign chair paul manafort and him finally retroactively registering as a foreign agent this year for the work he did years ago for pro-putin political parties and politicians in ukraine. when he finally retroactively registered as a foreign agent he reported over two years, 2012, 2013, the pro putin political party that he worked for paid him nearly $17 million. the reason that's weird is because over that same two-year period that party...

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campaign as its chairman, business entities tiedtopaulmanafortappearto have been deeply indebt to business entities to putin connected oligarchs. one was the aluminum oligarch, once signed paul manafort to a $10 million a year contract to promote the interests of vladimir putin's government around the world. including in the united states. the other oligarch was a -- or the other person to whom paul manafort reportedly owed money was a business partner of dmitry furtash. he was part of the political party in the ukraine that paul manafort worked for for years. the state controlled gas company cooked up one of the oligarch specials for dmitry and his business partner which shoveled billions of dollars to them by letting them take a cut out of every single fart worth of natural gas that they sold to ukraine. these guys repaid putin for the multi-billion dollar favor by paying the politicians that putin wanted in power in the ukraine. it's nice work if you can get it. i'm sorry i said fart. a few days ago, we reported on a dismissed u.s. lawsuit that claimed that one of the ways thos

campaign as its chairman, business entities tied to paul manafort appear to have been deeply indebt to business entities to putin connected oligarchs. one was the aluminum oligarch, once signed paul manafort to a $10 million a year contract to promote the interests of vladimir putin's government around the world. including in the united states. the other oligarch was a -- or the other person to whom paul manafort reportedly owed money was a business partner of dmitry furtash. he was part of...

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, attended by donald trump jr., jared kushner, the president's son-in-law,andpaulmanafort, thecampaign chair more. credit to "the new york times" for forcing this information out into the open, right? this is obviously the end product of a long, tough slog in terms of investigative reporting. at the same time, though, you didn't really expect it to arrive on is a silver platter like this, did you? they're not even six months into this administration and they're confessing to colluding with the russians during the campaign. now that that has happened, it seems like there are two possible paths that this goes from here. i mean, again, i don't want to lose track of the big picture. in any normal political circumstances, we would be at the end already. this would be the end of the road, with the clear admission of guilt. the worst-case scenario, yeah, we did it. but it turns out in real life, life goes on. so this is like, we're standing at the edge of the pavement, the road, has, in fact ended. but now we've got to find like little deer tracks through the wads to figure out where we're go

, attended by donald trump jr., jared kushner, the president's son-in-law, and paul manafort, the campaign chair more. credit to "the new york times" for forcing this information out into the open, right? this is obviously the end product of a long, tough slog in terms of investigative reporting. at the same time, though, you didn't really expect it to arrive on is a silver platter like this, did you? they're not even six months into this administration and they're confessing to...

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kushner and donald trump, jr.,andpaulmanafort, thisis on the one hand just the latest in what is now an incredibly long string of meetings and contacts between people in the trump campaign and russian officials. r during the campaign and during the transition. meetings that were all denied. none of which were initially disclosed until the press figured them out one by one and then oh, yeah, one by one they've admitted to each of them. oh, yeah, i forgot that one too. oh, yeah, i forgot that one too. in addition to that, this new reporting really does include an explicit admission from the president's son who was acting as a campaign official that when the trump campaign learned that russians had launched a hacking attack against the united states to try to influence the outcome of our election, the trump campaign response to that at the highest levels was how can we get in on that? to see what the trump campaign might be able to get out of that sweet, sweet foreign attack on the united states? at the beginning of this saga, there were so many mysteries, so many intriguing ques

kushner and donald trump, jr., and paul manafort, this is on the one hand just the latest in what is now an incredibly long string of meetings and contacts between people in the trump campaign and russian officials. r during the campaign and during the transition. meetings that were all denied. none of which were initially disclosed until the press figured them out one by one and then oh, yeah, one by one they've admitted to each of them. oh, yeah, i forgot that one too. oh, yeah, i forgot...

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manafort. isjeff sessions involved in any work at the department of justiceconcerningpaulmanafortoris he recused. we can report tonight that the justice department will not say. we started asking yesterday. we asked throughout the day today. we have asked it five times in five different ways including me making the request myself personally multiple times in as many different ways as i could think of it. they will not say whether or not he's recused. he has recused on flynn they say. he is recused on things related to the trump campaign broadly. they won't say about manafort. so we have news to break tonight. another subpoena has been issued as part of the ongoing investigations into president trump's associates. again nbc news reporting exclusively that federal investigators subpoenaed records relating to a $3.5 million loan taken out by paul manafort last year. we've got much more to come tonight. and because this is our life now, new substantive breaking news has happened in the last couple of minutes. because no night is complete without breaking news stories about the new admi

manafort. is jeff sessions involved in any work at the department of justice concerning paul manafort or is he recused. we can report tonight that the justice department will not say. we started asking yesterday. we asked throughout the day today. we have asked it five times in five different ways including me making the request myself personally multiple times in as many different ways as i could think of it. they will not say whether or not he's recused. he has recused on flynn they say. he...

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supposed to get live testimony on wednesday from donald trump jr.andpaulmanafort? notanymore. senator chuck grassley, the chair of the judiciary committee in the senate, now says that's not going to happen he now says trump jr. and paul manafort will hand over documents and they'll speak with staff, and they will talk to the committee at some point in the future, but not now. in the meantime, chuck grassley is going to hold an entirely different hearing on wednesday, and he is tonight filed a subpoena to compel testimony from the head of the research firm that paid for the christopher steel dossier of alleged russian dirt on donald trump. that dossier that caused such a stir when it was published by buzz feed in january. it has a lot of lurid stuff in it that is still unsubinstant shated. it also has a lot of stuff that has been born out by subsequent serious investigation. this thing that's about to happen on wednesday that just got scheduled tonight, this is the thing i have been saying was coming. this is the thing i've been saying was coming from congressional republicans

supposed to get live testimony on wednesday from donald trump jr. and paul manafort? not anymore. senator chuck grassley, the chair of the judiciary committee in the senate, now says that's not going to happen he now says trump jr. and paul manafort will hand over documents and they'll speak with staff, and they will talk to the committee at some point in the future, but not now. in the meantime, chuck grassley is going to hold an entirely different hearing on wednesday, and he is tonight...

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president's campaignchairman,paulmanafort. paulmanafortdida voluntarily closed door interview with one investigative committee today with senate intel. he spoke with them about the trump tower meeting with the russians last june. he reportedly shared with the committee his notes that he took during that meeting in trump tower with all of those russians. after he got the subpoena last night, we had also expected paul manafort to be appearing basically involuntarily in an open session at the senate tomorrow at the judiciary committee along with the president's eldest son donald trump jr. we are not sure what either of them are doing but neither will make an appearance on your tv screen tomorrow. that subpoena from manafort just rescinded within the past hour. we'll have more on what that all means ahead tonight. >>> plus, we've got interesting news tonight on the democrats and veterans groups getting what they're calling basically a surprise win against the republicans in congress. a surprise win against the republicans which seems to have totally blind sided the republicans tod

president's campaign chairman, paul manafort. paul manafort did a voluntarily closed door interview with one investigative committee today with senate intel. he spoke with them about the trump tower meeting with the russians last june. he reportedly shared with the committee his notes that he took during that meeting in trump tower with all of those russians. after he got the subpoena last night, we had also expected paul manafort to be appearing basically involuntarily in an open session at...

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.andpaulmanafort♪not anymore. chuck grassley in the senate now says that's not going to happen. he now says trump jr. and paul manafort will hand over documents and they'll speak with staff and will talk to the committee at some point in the future. but not now. in the meantime, though, chuck grassley is going to hold an entirely different hearing on wednesday and he's filed a subpoena to compel testimony from the head of the research firm that paid for the christopher steele dossier of alleged russian dirt on donald trump, that dossier that caused such a stir when it was published by buzzfeed in january, it has a lot of lurid stuff in it but honestly it has a lot of stuff in it that has been borne out by subsequent sirius investigation. this thing that's going to happen on wednesday, this is the thing i have been saying is coming. this is the thing i have been saying is coming from congressional republicans and from republicans who want to defend donald trump. senator grassley set the subpoena tonight. he's canceled the testimony from don jr. and paul manafort and instead of h

. and paul manafort ♪ not anymore. chuck grassley in the senate now says that's not going to happen. he now says trump jr. and paul manafort will hand over documents and they'll speak with staff and will talk to the committee at some point in the future. but not now. in the meantime, though, chuck grassley is going to hold an entirely different hearing on wednesday and he's filed a subpoena to compel testimony from the head of the research firm that paid for the christopher steele dossier of...

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and rescinded their subpoena to the president's campaignchairman,paulmanafort. hedid a voluntary closed door interview with one investigative committee today with senate intel, he spoke with them of the trump tower meeting with the russians last june. he reportedly shared with the committee his notes that he took with all those russians. after the he got the subpoena last night, we expected paul manafort to be appearing basically basically involuntarily. now, that subpoena has been rescinded and we are not sure what either of them are doing in terms of their testimonies and handing stuff over. neither of them are making appearances on your tv screen tomorrow. we'll have more on what it all means ahead. >>> we got interests news tonight on the democrats and veteran group, getting what they call a surprising win against the republicans in congress, which seem to have blind sighted the republicans today. there is a whole bunch of things that we are watching. the big story of the day that's still under way tonight is republicans last ditch effort to pass a bill and any bill that woul

and rescinded their subpoena to the president's campaign chairman, paul manafort. he did a voluntary closed door interview with one investigative committee today with senate intel, he spoke with them of the trump tower meeting with the russians last june. he reportedly shared with the committee his notes that he took with all those russians. after the he got the subpoena last night, we expected paul manafort to be appearing basically basically involuntarily. now, that subpoena has been...

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that your counterpart committee in the senate has scheduled testimony next weekfrompaulmanafortandfrom donald trump jr. they're scheduled to testify next wednesday, although as far as i know, they haven't confirmed that they're going to appear. judiciary committee, excuse me. we're also told that jared kushner is going to be doing a behind closed doors interview with the senate intelligence committee on monday of next week. as for your committee in the house, there has been some scheduled testimony from a number of different people, trump adviser j.d. gordon, from former obama national security adviser rice, and roger stone, a number of pieces of scheduled testimony that have been delayed. looking from the outside, it sort of feels like things in the senate are moving, and things in the house are stalled. as the senior democrat on that committee, is it fair to say that your committee is stalled? >> no, not at all. in fact, we have been progressing with the interviews just about every week. what we are trying to do is we're trying to coordinate with bob mueller. we're trying to coo

that your counterpart committee in the senate has scheduled testimony next week from paul manafort and from donald trump jr. they're scheduled to testify next wednesday, although as far as i know, they haven't confirmed that they're going to appear. judiciary committee, excuse me. we're also told that jared kushner is going to be doing a behind closed doors interview with the senate intelligence committee on monday of next week. as for your committee in the house, there has been some scheduled...

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jared kushnerandpaulmanafort. turninginto a point of focus for investigators and what is also turning out to be unexpected serious leverage that investigators might have over at least one and possibly two of the participants in that meeting. i know you've heard a little bit today about there being an eighth man in that meeting and the identity of the eighth man. you've probably heard a little bit of that today. you have not heard what we are about to report on that. so we've got that coming up ahead tonight. but we're going to start tonight with this late-breaking news. so -- this is a little window into my work day. whole staff is working away today, cubicle farms are humming. we know what we're doing. we're working on the show. i'm in my office threatened to be buried under piles of paper, as usual. we're all working away like we usually do. by this point, almost six months into the trump administration, we as a staff are now used to big stories about the trump administration breaking late in the day and then we have to throw our plans out the window and start to cover inste

jared kushner and paul manafort. turning into a point of focus for investigators and what is also turning out to be unexpected serious leverage that investigators might have over at least one and possibly two of the participants in that meeting. i know you've heard a little bit today about there being an eighth man in that meeting and the identity of the eighth man. you've probably heard a little bit of that today. you have not heard what we are about to report on that. so we've got that...

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undisclosed meeting between donald trumpjr.,paulmanafortandjared kushner, their meeting at trump tower with an em saerp of the russian government, russian speaking, who brought a translator with her, meeting with the top echelon of the trump campaign because she was seen by them as the delivery agent of the trump campaign of official russian documents and information that would somehow incriminate hillary clinton and that the trump folks could use in the campaign against her. now, since the e-mail setting up that e-mail were disclosed by donald trump jr. yesterday morning, a lot of people have noted that mr. trump didn't seem surprised. he didn't seem taken aback at all when he was told bluntly in this e-mail asking for this meeting that this, quote, obviously very high level and sensitive information is part of russia, and its government support for mr. trump. we have the whole e-mail chain, at least what donald trump jr. said is the whole e-mail chain. and he doesn't respond to that by saying, wait, russia and its government are supporting mr. trump? he doesn't seem shocked. right? h

undisclosed meeting between donald trump jr., paul manafort and jared kushner, their meeting at trump tower with an em saerp of the russian government, russian speaking, who brought a translator with her, meeting with the top echelon of the trump campaign because she was seen by them as the delivery agent of the trump campaign of official russian documents and information that would somehow incriminate hillary clinton and that the trump folks could use in the campaign against her. now, since...

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, 2016, with trumpjunior,paulmanafortandthe russian nationals. you know, the meeting at the center of the week. that was done on june 21st. joining me now, sabrina siddiqui and michael steele. let me start with you, michael. 9 existence of that e-mail has changed the way i feel about this. and you've got to think that the senators and republican congressmen on capitol hill know that they are watching themselves. >> they do. they are nervous about it, angry about it. they realize that there's very little they can do about it. why? the cement that has blocked them in around their feet are the very voters who are running 80, 90% still in support of president trump. so they can't do any chipping away at this at all. >> they could. >> they could. >> let's be clear. we're free agents. >> are you willing to take the risk? what matters most? >> right. >> you've not got on the table the country and the party that could be a real mess if this is allowed to play itself out coming down a pike a year from now saying, by the way, this is the litany of things that are problematic. what do you do

, 2016, with trump junior, paul manafort and the russian nationals. you know, the meeting at the center of the week. that was done on june 21st. joining me now, sabrina siddiqui and michael steele. let me start with you, michael. 9 existence of that e-mail has changed the way i feel about this. and you've got to think that the senators and republican congressmen on capitol hill know that they are watching themselves. >> they do. they are nervous about it, angry about it. they realize that...